Can't give you the technical side of things, but we are about to pretty much do the same thing in the same sized room. We are going with two separate sets of 4 LEDs - one in living, one in dining, so 8 lights altogether. We're going to have both sets on dimmers so we can adjust the level of lighting if/when required and independently of each other. Both our electrician and an in-home Beacon Lighting consultation agreed this would be adequate and a dramatic improvement on the poor light quality the oysters currently provide. Only other tips i can pass on is that if you're also upgrading any lights in adjacent spaces, make sure you use same light colour of LEDs - generally best to stick with warm white - and don't get too many LEDs - have seen many examples where people have put in heaps and then felt the ceiling looks like a runway!!

I only have downlights. Simple and unobtrusive. If that's what you want, then have them.

i'm glad you're planning to reroute access to the garage: clumsy traffic pattern change a generous room into a big hallway and can't stop thinking about your kitchen..1. where you have narrow cabinets/shelves in the pantry...it's possible to have built in shelves inside the dividing wall (think about the size of what you want to store: cans, bottles, skinny packets? and put 60cm base cabinets on the other side, next to the freezer 2. i can't see the yellow highlights for stools 3. width of pantry is subject to you wanting to keep the door to the formal living room...if so, measure 150mm past the door opening and that's the minimum width of the pantry but 1500mm allows space to comfortably walk past your freezer and have full size base cabinets with pantry drawers (cleaner than open shelves) 4. space between the b'fast bar and 'fridge should be at least 90cm but if you choose a wide b'fast bar and a big 'fridge a bigger space is preferable (stand a couple of chairs 90cm in front of your current fridge for a few days and see how it feels) direction of fridge door opening is also critical, first for the cooks and then everyone else: if the size of the b'fast bar can be enlarged or reduced with overhanging counter then a change of walkway is not so difficult 5. as suggested by girlguide, the cooktop and rangehood might be better on the outside wall for ventilation 6. there seems to be a lot of small cabinets and drawers in your plan and there could be some better (and cheaper) combinations but when i tried to access IKEA kitchen planner to confirm available sizes it's not responding today 7. i've attached my suggested approximate base cabinet sizes: starting with corners and work outwards, aiming for the biggest standard carcases and then add drawers to suit purpose ..

We chose the other way. Pendants over 3700mm Long Island and nothing over the table. I think your space is big enough for pendants above the island, and then a large pendant in dining room, as your dining room is separate from the island, in its own room. You could have pendants that are similar and complement each other. This is ours, not staged just everyday life.